August 23, 2007
02:00 PM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-2007-32

Going, Going, Gone: Hubble Captures Uranus's Rings on Edge

August 23, 2007: This series of images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows how the ring system
around the distant planet Uranus appears at ever more oblique (shallower) tilts as viewed from Earth -
culminating in the rings being seen edge-on in three observing opportunities in 2007. The
best of these events appears in the far right image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary
Camera 2 on August 14, 2007.